Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Troy Hurtubise

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The result was keep. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:04, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Troy Hurtubise[edit]

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Fails GNG, only coverage is local news or news focusing on his invention. Noah ^💬 14:43, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep This guy is quite famous in Canada for "project Grizzly", a suit worn to protect from bear attacks. There is a lot of of national-level coverage. There was a documentary film made about Project Grizzly. Peter Gzowski interviewed him several times.

Here is what the New York Times said of him in 1997: "In 1984, Troy Hurtubise was hiking in the Canadian Rockies when he came face to face with a 600-pound grizzly bear. The great beast knocked him down, stared momentarily and casually retreated into the bush. End of story. Well, not quite. Since that day, Hurtubise, a scrap-metal dealer from North Bay, Ontario, has been on a quest to wrestle a grizzly in the wild."
Here is what The Guardian said of a book he wrote: "Bear Man: The Troy Hurtubise Saga is Troy's magnum opus, the tersely told summary of his yearnings, frustrations, triumphs and philosophy. The book includes many of Troy's previous writings on these subjects, augmented with a powerful-as-a-riled-up-grizzly collection of previously private photos, philosophy, intellectualising, and emoting."
Variety reviewed the Project Grizzly film about him, summarizing it as "Ultra-Canuck docu profiles one seriously deranged individual, an Ontario scrap-metal merchant and inventor of a string of high-tech suits, all designed to help him come face-to-face with his obsession, grizzly bears."
The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national newspapers, printed a huge obituary when he died, saying "Troy Hurtubise combined the fevered imagination of a mad scientist with the foolhardy bravery of Evel Knievel in his quest to design a suit impervious to bear attack. Operating from a makeshift laboratory in a garage in North Bay, Ont., he produced ever stronger armour for what he called Project Grizzly. He was a backwoods Don Quixote convinced of his scientific acumen, a Captain Ahab whose white whale was ursus arctos horribilis. As with those fictional characters, he, too, was ultimately doomed by his compulsion."
The National Post sums up some of his fame: "With his fringed buckskin jacket and ostentatious red beret, Troy was not just Canadian famous, but American famous. He did spots on big-time talk shows like Roseanne Barr’s, with Penn & Teller. David Letterman wanted to drive out of a New York alley in a limo and crash into Troy in his armour, but Troy said no. Even The Simpsons did a parody, in which “local laughingstock Homer Simpson” builds a bear-proof suit out of scrap metal that looks just like Troy’s, called the BearBuster 5000 in a clear reference to his Ursus Mark VI." (here also is the Simpsons clip)

It would be quite easy to add 20 more quotes like this. He was also mentioned in many books and magazines such as The New Scientist, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Reader's Digest and so on... His obituary appeared in The Evening Standard, Vice Magazine, CTV News, the Toronto Star, and the CBC. I would suggest withdrawing this AfD, since the subject is very clearly notable, as a WP:BEFORE would have shown.--- Possibly (talk) 15:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep for all the reasons that Possibly has noted above. I don't even know how this article could be thought to meet GTG. TimothyPilgrim (talk) 16:55, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per what Possibly has listed as rationale. Bebopjohnson (talk) 16:59, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep have a look at this and this. ♠Devan Lallu ^Talk 12:50, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Yes, the article could use some improvement — but right off the top, the nominator completely ignored the existence of a Genie Award-nominated feature documentary film about Troy (by the National Film Board of Canada, one of the most prestigious documentary film studios on earth, to boot!) when assessing what coverage Troy does or doesn't have, and that's before you even consider (a) their misreading of the existing sources (some of which are bad, but the good ones cover a wider range than claimed), and (b) the fact that numerous other good sources have been offered in this discussion, demonstrating that the nominator didn't do much WP:BEFORE work. Seriously, how could anybody on this planet ever be notable at all for anything, if news reportage about the things they did somehow didn't count as valid sourcing? Bearcat (talk) 21:44, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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